Join Home Office Digital - we're hiring

It’s a really exciting time to work in Home Office Digital. We work on really important services, which affect people across the UK and beyond.

Things like getting or renewing a passport, getting permission to come to or stay in the UK, entering the country or returning to it.

We work on problems like how people prove their identity, know what they're entitled to, and how people prove they’re eligible for something. We also design for behind-the-scenes - the things people delivering services need, to do their jobs effectively. We design with data and we also build platforms and registers as building blocks of services. We work with people who value user research and design and we create work we feel proud of.

What it's like to work in Home Office Digital

I joined the civil service 5 years ago - just as the Government Digital Service was arriving and shaking up how we 'do' digital government. I'm proud to be a part of the change in focus here at the Home Office. We’ve built a great team of researchers and designers working to deliver services built around what works for users.

And we’re now looking for more talented people to help us take things to the next level.

Build government services that work for all users

User research

In user research we’ve been leading the way with assisted digital and access needs research, and have dedicated teams working on making all our services inclusive and accessible. We’re setting up a participant panel and building two usability labs to make it as easy as possible to test all our services in every sprint.

Service design

Service designers work on the big, end-to-end services that reflect what someone is trying to do. We identify problems, re-think how services work in fundamental ways and prototype common solutions.

Interaction design

Our interaction designers work closely with user researchers, content designers and front-end developers, iterating prototypes based on research with users and moving to working with real code as early as possible.

Content design

And we put content designers into projects from discovery, challenging assumptions and using evidence to make sure the words we use meet the needs of our users.